dspy-chatadapter

dspy-chatadapter is a skill for Claude Code from lebsral/DSPy-Programming-not-prompting-LMs-skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An explanation and debugging guide for DSPy's ChatAdapter, which turns structured task definitions into chat messages and converts model replies back into typed results. It also describes its fallback to JSONAdapter when parsing fails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand, debug, or inspect ChatAdapter behavior in multi-turn chat workflows and typed DSPy outputs.
Why use it?
It helps explain how DSPy formats prompts and reads model responses. This is useful when a model ignores instructions or returns data in an unexpected format.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dspy-api-skills plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to understand, debug, or inspect ChatAdapter behavior in multi-turn chat workflows and typed DSPy outputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lebsral/dspy-programming-not-prompting-lms-skills/dspy-chatadapter
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add lebsral/DSPy-Programming-not-prompting-LMs-skills --skill dspy-chatadapter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lebsral/DSPy-Programming-not-prompting-LMs-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dspy-api-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills.

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,919 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00152 $0.02919
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01460
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00584
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00292

Measured 11d ago against content hash 25eefd21b087, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dspy-chatadapter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/dspy-chatadapter/SKILL.md · 274 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 274 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 25eefd21b087

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dspy-chatadapter is a skill published in the GitHub repository lebsral/DSPy-Programming-not-prompting-LMs-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,919 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.